Yosafat Eka Prasetya Pangalela

Yosafat Eka Prasetya Pangalela is an Indonesian quantitative finance professional. He represents Indonesia at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2007, holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Otago, and master's and bachelor's degrees in Mathematics from Institut Teknologi Bandung. His career has been in quantitative research and portfolio management at Indonesian asset managers, most recently as Quantitative Strategist at AIA Indonesia.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Yosafat Eka Prasetya Pangalela holds actual quantitative-finance roles: Quantitative Researcher then Quantitative Researcher (AVP), Head of Investment at Pinnacle Investment (Jakarta), 2017-2023, and Quantitative Strategist at AIA Indonesia from April 2023. Identity is supported by convergent public records: the IMO 2007 Indonesian participant page, the Mathematics Genealogy Project PhD record (Otago), arXiv publications under the same name, and a self-authored FDP charterholder profile that describes his own path as a quantitative researcher at a multi-strategy investment management firm developing factor-investing strategies, later tactical asset allocation, and currently quantitative analysis for equity and fixed income teams at AIA. Employer classification: Pinnacle Investment is a Jakarta asset manager running quantitative equity funds and ETFs (Asia Asset Management, 2018), so the role is quantitative asset management rather than a trading/market-making desk; AIA Indonesia is a life insurer whose quantitative strategist seat is investment analysis. The LinkedIn role entries are index-only; the FDP self-profile and the Asia Asset article are separate corroborating sources. No trading-firm, bank, or crypto/energy trading internship was found.
• Self-authored FDP charterholder profile states he pursued all his degrees in mathematics (algebra and analysis) and decided during the second year of his PhD that academic life was not for him, choosing industry and first encountering quantitative finance there; his first role was a quantitative researcher at a multi-strategy investment management firm developing factor-investing strategies, later moving into tactical asset allocation.Apr 29, 2026
• At Pinnacle he managed one equity fund and seven ETFs with about USD 25 million AUM as of March 2023 that were described as consistently beating their benchmarks, per his LinkedIn role description (index-only claim).Mar 2023
• Co-authored the operator-algebras paper 'Efficient Presentations of Relative Cuntz-Krieger Algebras' (arXiv:1804.06591, submitted 18 Apr 2018) with Lisa Orloff Clark, giving applications to ideals and quotients of Toeplitz algebras.Apr 18, 2018
• PhD in Mathematics, University of Otago; doctoral thesis 'Analogues of Leavitt path algebras for higher-rank graphs' published 2017, in the operator-algebras/higher-rank-graph C*-algebra area.2017
• Holds the FDP (Financial Data Professional) designation from the FDP Institute and the FRM (Financial Risk Manager) designation, plus a Certified Risk and AI credential and a CFA Institute Data Science for Investment Professionals certificate.Apr 29, 2026
• CFA Institute credential transcript shows CFA Program Level II passed 9 Oct 2025 and Level I passed 8 Oct 2024 (8 credentials under one issuer), so his CFA charter is in progress rather than complete.Oct 9, 2025
• Pinnacle Investment is a Jakarta-based asset manager that builds its strategy around quantitative funds and ETFs, per a May 2018 Asia Asset Management report on the firm's quant-fund push under John Rachmat, which classifies the employer as a quantitative asset manager rather than a proprietary trading firm.May 9, 2018
• Represented Indonesia at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2007 and was awarded an Honorable Mention (rank 365, 30.0 percentile, 8 points; 7 points on problem P4) while a student at SMA Negeri 4 Denpasar.2007
• Listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project as a doctoral graduate (record id 309034), corroborating the Otago PhD.
• His LinkedIn claims a distinct secondary profile (yosafat-pangalela-070632b7, 'Quantitative Researcher, Pinnacle Investment Management Group', New Zealand) that lacks education or dates, which is a namesake-risk duplicate rather than the primary record; the primary record is id.linkedin.com/in/yosafat-pangalela.